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PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 804 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARIS, See also:LOUIS PHILIPPE See also:ALBERT D'See also:ORLEANS, See also:COMTE DE (1838-1894), son of the duc d'Orleans, the eldest son of See also:King Louis Philippe, was See also:born on the 24th of See also:August 1838. His See also:mother was the princess See also:Helen of See also:Mecklenburg-See also:Schwerin, a See also:Protestant. By the See also:death of his See also:father through a See also:carriage See also:accident in 1842, the See also:count, who was then only four years of See also:age, became See also:heir-apparent to the See also:French See also:throne. On the deposition of Louis Philippe in 1848, the duchess of Orleans struggled to secure the See also:succession to her son, and See also:bore him through an excited populace to the chamber of deputies. The chamber itself was soon invaded, however, and the See also:Republic proclaimed. The See also:Orleanists were driven into See also:exile, and the duchess proceeded with her two sons, the comte de Paris and the duc de See also:Chartres, first to See also:Eisenach in See also:Saxony, and then to See also:Claremont in See also:Surrey. After his mother's death in 1858 the count made a See also:long See also:foreign tour. In 1861 he and his See also:brother accompanied their See also:uncle, the See also:prince de See also:Joinville, to the See also:United States. The See also:brothers were attached to the See also:staff of See also:General McClellan, commanding the" See also:Army of the See also:Potomac." In See also:April 1862 the count took See also:part in the See also:siege of See also:Yorktown, and was See also:present at the See also:action of See also:Williamsburg on the 5th of May. He was also with McClellan at the See also:battle of See also:Fair Oaks, and was personally engaged in the sanguinary battle at Gaines See also:Mill on the 27th of See also:June. When difficulties arose between See also:France and the United States with regard to the affairs of See also:Mexico, the Orleans princes withdrew from the See also:American army and returned to See also:Europe. During the See also:winter of 1862-1863 the count took a See also:special See also:interest in the organization of the See also:Lancashire See also:Cotton See also:Famine Fund, and contributed an See also:article to the Revue See also:des deux mondes entitled " See also:Christmas See also:Week in Lancashire." On the 3oth of May 1864 he married his See also:cousin, the princess See also:Marie Isabelle, daughter of the duc de See also:Montpensier; and his son and heir, the duc d'Orleans, was born at See also:York See also:House, See also:Twickenham, in 1869.

The count was refused permission to serve in the Franco-Prussian See also:

War, but after the fall of See also:Napoleon III. he returned to France. Abstaining from putting himself forward, he lived quietly on his estates, which had been restored to him by a See also:vote of the See also:Assembly. In August 1873 there was an important See also:political See also:conference at Frohsdorf, the result of which was that a See also:fusion was effected, by which the comte de Paris agreed to waive his claims to the throne in favour of those of the comte de See also:Chambord. By the death of the latter in 1883 the count became undisputed See also:head of the house of See also:Bourbon; but he did not show any disposition to push his claims. The popularity of the Orleans See also:family, however, was shown on the occasion of the See also:marriage of the comte de Paris's eldest daughter with the See also:duke of See also:Braganza, son of the king of See also:Portugal, in May 1886. This so alarmed the French See also:government that it led to a new See also:law of See also:expulsion, by which See also:direct claimants to the French throne and their heirs were banished from France (June 11, 1886). The comte de Paris again retired to See also:England, taking up his See also:abode at Sheen House, near See also:Richmond See also:Park. Here he devoted his leisure to his favourite studies. In addition to his See also:work See also:Les Associations ouvrieres en Angleterre, which was published in 1869 and translated into See also:English, the count edited the letters of his father, and published at intervals in eight volumes his Histoire de la guerre civile en Amerique. In his later years the count seriously compromised the prospects of the Royalist party by the relations into which he entered with General See also:Boulanger. He died on the 8th of See also:September 1894.

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